Asplenium hemionitis
An Atlantic spleenwort from Macaronesia, northwest Africa and mainland Portugal. It grows in humid laurel forest and other shady places, and sometimes on open slopes that stay wet with ocean humidity. It suits cool, humid, shaded growing: a cool terrarium, a cold-frame or a sheltered frost-free shady corner, not a warm tropical tank.
Where it grows wild
The humid laurel forest (monteverde, laurisilva) of the Canaries and Madeira, shady ravines and banks, and in mainland Portugal places such as the Sintra hills. It usually grows on shaded soil banks and among rocks, and sometimes on open slopes where frequent Atlantic mist keeps the air moist.
The few records that give an elevation lie between about 50 and 935 m, which matches the laurel-forest belt on the Canaries and Madeira. Mainland sites are low hills near the coast.
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